Ick. No.
No garlic.
Pancetta is fine, but guanciale is better.
No cream. ??
Wrong cheese.
No peas. ??
Authentic spaghetti carbonara is made with just egg yolks, black pepper, pecorino and guanciale.
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I love guanciale, but it is hard to find as it won’t be in most stores. Pancetta or bacon is a good substitute.
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Quote History Quoted:I love guanciale, but it is hard to find as it won’t be in most stores. Pancetta or bacon is a good substitute.
Guanciale is literally the simplest charcuterie that you can cure and dry at home. Most decent butchers can get you some fresh hog jowls.
Equilibrium cure fresh hog jowls with salt, Cure #2, sugar, and pepper. Hang to dry in kitchen for a couple months until ~25-30% weight loss. No need for a humidity/temperature-controlled drying chamber - hog jowls have such a high fat-to-lean ratio that over-drying or case-hardening is rarely an issue.
Simple ingredients (weigh in grams for easier math):
Fresh, trimmed hog jowls (remove the glands) = 100%
2.25 % salt
0.25 % Cure no. 2
1.5 % sugar
.05 % cracked pepper